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Some local schools have already barred AIDS patients from the classroom. Washington Borough in New Jersey turned away a four-year-old girl with AIDS- related complex (ARC) and her nine-year-old brother, even though he is not ill. In Washington, a child with AIDS is tutored alone in a separate room at school, and in Kokomo, Ind., a 13-year-old hemophiliac with the disease has been instructed at home over a phone hookup...
Considering the impression that many people form when they first see the sculpture -- that they have somehow wandered onto an unsightly construction project -- the controversy over Richard Serra's Tilted Arc was understandable. Commissioned by the General Services Administration at a cost of more than $175,000, the unbroken 12-ft.-high wall of rust-patinaed steel stretches 120 ft. across Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan, forcing thousands of pedestrians to hike around it. Since the installation of Tilted Arc in 1981, more than 7,000 office workers have signed petitions demanding the work's removal. During a series...
...work, Serra, 45, tends to talk like vintage Ayn Rand. "They don't live there," he says of the workers in Federal Plaza. "It's not a neighborhood. The Government doesn't ask them what chairs they want to sit on. Why should they vote on sculpture?" Through Tilted Arc, he told the March hearing, "the viewer becomes aware of himself and of his movement through the plaza . . . Step by step the perception not only of the sculpture but of the entire environment changes." One would think it was meant to be like the black slab in 2001, bestowing consciousness...
...work, Serra insists, is "site-specific," designed for, and in terms of, a given spot. Remove Tilted Arc from Federal Plaza and, according to Serra, it will become the meaningless array of rusty metal that its opponents claim it already...
...matter. The hearing brought scores of pundits opining that the "censoring" of the sculpture would be the moral equivalent of Hitler's book burning, that it would start an iconoclastic stampede against all public sculpture in America and so forth. But the central point is that Tilted Arc was, according to Serra, conceived and contracted between him and the GSA as a permanent installation in Federal Plaza, and that the GSA should not convene a hearing to change the rules four years after the closing whistle. If it wants to avoid such imbroglios it should try / slipping a public-acceptability...